Kristen Stewart makes a splash at the Cannes Film Festival with her directorial debut The Chronology of Water.

Stewart’s first steps as a director came eight years ago with the short “Come Swim,” which she also premiered in Cannes, in ...

She presents Lidia Yuknavitch’s story as a series of impressionistic closeup moments that sear themselves into you as if ...

Blissful freedom, self-lacerating addiction and trauma color her years from there, as does an inspirational writing experience with Ken Kesey (Jim Belushi in the film). Stewart calls the book “a ...